The Sorrows of Young Werther
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The Sorrows of Young Werther, or simply Werther, is a 1774 epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, which appeared as a revised edition in 1787. It was one of the main novels in the Sturm und Drang
First print 1774
Charlotte at Werther's grave. This scene is not in the novel.
Goethe portrait in profile
Colored engraving of Werther and Lotte
Sturm und Drang
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Sturm und Drang was a proto-Romanticist movement in German literature and music that occurred between the late 1760s and early 1780s. Within the movement, individual subjectivity and, in particular, e
The Sorrows of Young Werther
…simply Werther, is a 1774 epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, which appeared as a revised edition in 1787. It was one of the main novels in the Sturm und Drang period in German literature, and influenced the later Romantic movement. Goethe, aged 24 at the time, finished Werther in five and a half weeks of…
Clearing Up: Coast of Sicily, Andreas Achenbach, 1847
Johann Georg Hamann
Johann Anton Leisewitz